Voter’s Education... Best Tool by Marck Emmanuel Agdamag

One of the best and effective citizenship action tools and techniques especially this time because the election is near is voter’s education. Voter’s education is conducted by concerned citizens or sometimes the government to educate the voters
We all know that the presidential election will be in May 2010, and all of us may be new voters, some don’t want to vote because they don’t see the importance there vote can do, some choose the wrong and unjust candidates, some votes are being bought because the people don’t have integrity, some just don’t care, some don’t know that there’s an election , some are afraid to vote because of the terror that comes every elections in the voting area ,some are ignorant, some may don’t have the idea of whose to choose because of the lack of information and knowledge of whose going to run, who to vote, what to do to register?, where to vote?. And many more reasons why we should have voter’s education especially today that election will be near. Everyone’s vote is very important, the vote of the country reflects the sense of nationalism of its people and if our vote fails it just shows that we lack nationalism and entity. In that vote depends what’s going to be the future of our country.

Despite the promises of the candidates every election , we don’t get what they promise us like reducing poverty, corruption, free education, reduce hunger and many more promises that is untrue when they already have the post. We know that we are a third world country, despite of our high literacy rate many of the people are uneducated and don’t have the knowledge in their minds. People vote subjectively and come up with a wrong vote. They don’t weigh the facts and personality of the candidate.

What should be the content of an effective voters education: First sufficient funds should exist, funds are used to advertise your project, they are used in transportation of your materials and the people who will do and supervise the project, they are used in making the materials needed, they are used to support the basic needs of the people who will educate the voters without the funds how can you reach out to people and teach them about everything that is important in voting. Second, a dedicated and passionate leader must rule and supervise their project. A proper leader is important because he will be the one who’s going to make the rules and evaluate the opinions of the members to properly enforce and evaluate if it’s proper and the most right thing. The leader is also important because he will be the one to manage the members and the things that involved in the implementation of the rules. Third the right and passionate members must exist, members are the one who’s going to do the mission of the project and they are the one who’s going to make the actions that can educate the voters. It is the mission of the members to properly do the things required so the mission can be attained. The members should be educated and have the right thoughts to properly educate the voters. He or she must be charismatic and must be good and inspiring speaker so that people will listen and follow what he said and taught to them. Fourth a mission and a goal must be set to guide the project of the program. It is important to have this mission so that they have the drive to properly do the program. It is also used to view the attainment of the program so that they can check their status. Fifth a platform must be done so that they follow proper and organized actions to properly do the mission and imply to the members what should be done and to determine the goals of the project. The platform is used so that they are not clueless of the status of their project and do the right things. It is also used to measure the status if every goal is done. It also make the mission of the project clear to every of its members, the leader and the voters. So we should not only focus on the mission alone but also the more important thing the platform because in the platform we can see the trueness of the mission and if the projects are effective and the right thing to do. We should criticize the project’s platform always and argue if the platform is not done. Sixth is the recipient of their missions and their platforms, it is important to take into consideration the recipients of their missions and their platforms because it is the reason why this project is made. The project is voter’s education and obviously the recipients is the voters, the voters should be educated properly and right so that the message you want to imply to the recipient is totally understood and followed. The recipient must be open minded and must evaluate the teachings that the members of the project taught to them. At the end of the project the recipient must able to have the right decisions who should be voted?, must be nationalistic, must have in mind the knowledge of proper voting, and must able to absorb what the educator taught to them. If this happen the mission of the project succeeds and followed therefore smells victory for the project. Seventh are the personality and the attitude of all the people involved be right and must intertwined. The right personality and attitude of all the people involved is important because with the proper attitude and personality among all people involved equals cooperation among all. With cooperation, the mission will be achieved and all the platforms can be done by the right time. If all cooperates of course all will be involved and it will increase productivity of the project. Conflict and problems may arise but with cooperation it could easily be resolved and can be grounds for improvement for the next time to come. Eight the implementation of every activity is very important. The implementation of every activity is very important because the program should be organized, proper and right. If the implementation goes wrong and badly done, it may cause failure to that activity and the rule is not followed and the activity goes to trash. In every activity that the project does the members interact with the recipients and in that the members can deliver their message to the recipients. In the success of every activity depends whether they will succeed in their mission. Ninth the message of the members should be clear. The message the members imply to the recipients contains all the information that the projects wants them to learn and be able to evaluate. The clarity of every message that the members imply can we assess the content and value of what the members taught and what the recipients understands. If the message is unclear then the content of what the members taught can be decreased as well as the understanding of every recipients and it means failure. The clarity of the message the members want to address is not only limited to the communication of the members and the recipient but also the tools and the techniques the project does. Example of these tools and techniques is the internet, fliers, TV ads, radio ads, debates, newspaper, text messages and more. This tools and techniques require sufficient funds so that it can be attained. Last is success, the most important thing at all. In the success of the project means that all the platforms are done therefore the mission is attained. In success the nine content must be followed so it means success. Through the success of the project the recipients are educated and can really help the success of the country. It is not only important that they make success but also they fulfill their contentment. They should make sure that success is attained. The success of the projects depends on the future of our country.

Voter’s education will really help the people’s ignorance of everything that includes voting and election to be demolished. It should be the proper Citizenship Action Tools and Techniques for this time especially the election is near. The proper organization will be the one to properly manage the voter’s education campaign because they are the ones equipped with all the resources that the making of this will require. Everyone can participate in this project as long as you got what it takes. The voter’s education campaign can be grounds for proper and peaceful elections to occur because when people are educated of all the knowledge and the understandings that the campaign taught them in they are more nationalistic and therefore become volunteers for honest and peaceful elections. It let the people to evaluate the claims and the means of all the candidates through debates, looking for the candidate’s platforms and the factors that involved of being in that post.